Archives - 23 July 2017, Sunday

A recurring challenge for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is how to make them work in the real world. A Singapore-based startup says the answer is its Visa card. TenX is pitching its debit card as an instant converter of multiple digital currencies into fiat money: the dollars, yen...

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SINGAPORE: For over 40 years, Dr Dawn-joy Leong struggled to come to terms with some of her eccentricities and social awkwardness. She had always known that she was different from her friends and relatives, but couldn’t figure out why. It was only 10 years ago, when she was 42 and her...

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“Over the years, Singapore has initiated and supported a number of programmes focused on catalysing and supporting the appreciation and development for artistic talent. As festival producers, we are hoping to use our network to provide a wider platform for such artistes to showcase th...

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Didn’t manage to get your tickets for this year’s National Day Parade (NDP) at the Marina Bay Floating Platform? No worries, you can still get to watch the amazing fireworks with your loved ones in comfort without jostling with the crowd. Here are some of the best Singapore hotels and...

At 63, Madam Ivy Lim's career in cyber security has only just begun. She was hired in March as a telesales executive at security intelligence and analytics software firm LogRhythm and lost no time in becoming its best-performing telesales employee in the region. LogRhythm had not only...

Morata completed a £60million move from Real Madrid on Friday, signing a five-year contract at Stamford Bridge. The Spanish striker flew out to Singapore yesterday in order to link up with Chelsea on their pre-season tour, and has already taken part in his first training session. Mora...

According to the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA), only 30% of Singaporean businesses are on the cloud and they reported higher productivity growth. Over the next 3 to 10 years, IMDA expects to see growing adoption of cloud computing given its elasticity over t...

Chelsea are pictured arriving at Jet Quay Private Terminal in Singapore ahead of the next stage of their pre-season tour, with Pedro missing after receiving hospital treatment for a clash with David Ospina However, the Blues are in a buoyant mood on the back of their 3-0 victory over ...

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JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - New Korean comedy-drama Man Who Dies To Live has caused an uproar among netizens who have accused it of misusing Islamic values and portraying a false image of Muslims in its scenes. According to yonhapnews.co.kr, the drama, which has bee...

SINGAPORE: The official search for missing Singaporean diver Rinta Paul Mukkam has been called off after the 10-day operation proved unsuccessful. Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) told Channel NewsAsia on Sunday (Jul 23) that the search was “closed” on Saturday...

BANGKOK: An army 'Big Shot' whose influence seeped across the south, Lieutenant-General Manas Kongpan sat at the apex of Thailand's grisly trade in humans, raking in an untold fortune to keep prying eyes off the trafficking route. As the number of desperate Rohingya and Bangladeshis s...

Mr Gus Hunt deals in a dystopian-sounding space of aggressive cyber attacks, simmering geopolitical tensions and damaging hacking scandals. But the former chief technology officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is surprisingly affable - and optimistic about the...

Back in February this year, panellists at a public form called for more “naysayers” in Singapore, those who would speak truth to power. “They lamented the reluctance of civil servants to pose contrarian views when facing political office-holders, and the reticence of university studen...

Start your day with what's moving markets in Asia. Sign up here to receive our newsletter. A recurring challenge for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is how to make them work in the real world. A Singapore-based startup says the answer is its Visa card. TenX is pitching its debit ca...

SINGAPORE — Telemedicine is gaining more ground in Singapore, from progress seen in hospital programmes to new platforms coming online for patients to seek out and book healthcare professionals. Some of these latest developments were shared yesterday at the TeleMedicine – Future of He...

has said India’s implementation of GST was impressive not only from economic but also political perspective. “Building political support for good economics is impressive. How invisible money and corruption are being tackled in India is impressive,” he said at the Delhi Economics Concl...

SINGAPORE: It’s an open secret on many campuses here. With assignment deadlines looming, students have the option of burning the midnight oil, or turning to an alternative: Online services offering to complete essay assignments for a fee. Such services are widely available on Singapor...

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The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) implemented between ASEAN and India in 2010, and the services, trade and investment agreement in 2015, both represent major achievements in ASEAN–India integration . India completed its tariff liberalisation obligations in December 2016, barring those ag...

The director of a Singapore company reported to have trade links with North Korea has denied the allegations made against him. Singaporean Leo Ng Kheng Wah, 55, and his general wholesale trade company, OCN (Singapore), were named in a report by independent website NK News last week fo...

The Blues will square up to Bayern Munich on Tuesday before facing Inter Milan on Saturday. And they were spotted arriving at the Jet Quay Private Terminal ahead of their upcoming matches. Alvaro Morata travelled to Singapore yesterday after finalising his deal with Chelsea back in Lo...

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Singapore government has agreed to fund a research project by a local data center provider and a Chinese hardware vendor on designing and building underground and high-rise data centers, as the small island nation’s outsize data center industry faces a future marked by land shortages....

Our new signing Alvaro Morata trained with the Blues squad for the first time this evening in Singapore as attention turned towards Tuesday’s game against Bayern Munich. The Spanish striker, who officially became a Chelsea player on Friday following his move from Real Madrid, was part...

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Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has ordered the police to shoot drug traffickers who resist arrest in the latest effort to eradicate drug use in the country. In a speech to one of Indonesia's political parties late Friday, Widodo urged law enforcers to crackdown on drug dealers in I...

A double from 19-year-old Patrick Cutrone inspired a new-look Milan to a comfortable victory over Bayern Munich. Carlo Ancelotti maintains his strikers were not the problem in Bayern Munich's heavy defeat to AC Milan. Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich cancelled training after a delay...

If you’re a techie looking for a job, look no further – dreamboat Razer is hiring. During 2017’s Tech3 Forum, Razer was named one of the best tech companies to work for in Singapore by the Singapore Computer Society (SCS). Together with Red Hat, the ex-startup came out an overall winn...